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• Kind, Alkmaar
• Eppe Flinterman († 1963)
• Robert Jay van der Meulen, Holland-Michigan (USA) († 1985)
• Gene Arthur Kunst († 1968)
• Eugene Richard Giossi, Milbank, Grant County, South Dakota († 2018)
• Eppe Flinterman, Pangkal Pinang, Indonesie († 1963)
• Johannes VERBEEK, Apeldoorn († 2012)
• Nomo Nescio van Lier, Belfeld, Limburg, Nederland († 1950)
• Grieto Werkman, Appingedam († 1955)
• Robert Jay VAN DER MEULEN († 1985)

• Albertus Hemmer (70), Almelo
• Aaltje Bronkhorst (89), Sioux County, Iowa
• Horsten Augustinus Jacobus (82), Merksplas, Antwerpen, België
• Adriana Roovers (76), Prinsenbeek, NL
• Aaltje Dorgelo (80), Heino, Nederland
• Catharina Anthonia Kester (74), Delft,-
• Adriaan van der Jagt (54), Tholen
• Catharina Sonneveld (0)
• Catharina Margaretha Tewes (91)
• Aaltje Klaver (94), Wanneperveen

• 1949 » Alyson Bailes, English academic and diplomat († 2016)
• 1949 » Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 » Ng Ser Miang, Singaporean athlete, entrepreneur and diplomat
• 1949 » Patrick Hernandez, French singer-songwriter
• 1950 » Claire Morissette, Canadian cycling activist († 2007)
• 1950 » Cleo Odzer, American anthropologist and author († 2001)
• 1951 » Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1951 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot († 1990)
• 1951 » Pascal Rogé, French pianist
• 1951 » Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian

• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Robert
7. Gerrit
8. Pieter
9. Peter
10. Dirk
11. Petrus
12. Jacob
13. Jacobus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Adrianus
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Cornelia
5. Anna
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Hendrika
10. Marianne
11. Adriana
12. Margaretha
13. Mary
14. Linda
15. Jacoba
16. Geertruida

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• The Netherlands had about 10.0 million citizens.
• January 13 » British submarine HMSTruculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
• January 17 » The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
• March 17 » Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
• May 9 » Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
• August 25 » President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
• October 19 » China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.

The temperature on April 6, 1950 was between 3.9 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.